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In 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire for $7.2 million. The deal was widely ridiculed. Critics called it "Seward's Folly," after the secretary of state and lead negotiator, William Seward.

In hindsight, given the state's immense natural resources and strategic location, it's tough to think of Alaska as anything ...Read more

The macroeconomic numbers are good. America is near full employment. The stock market is doing well. Inflation is high, but down from where it was with former President Joe Biden. Americans do not care. They hate both parties. Republican operatives on the ground in state after state tell me the same story. Voters are enraged at the GOP.

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Conservatives expressed grave concern when director Greta Gerwig happily announced that her forthcoming movie "Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" would star Meryl Streep as the voice of Aslan -- the lion that author C.S. Lewis clearly used as a Christ figure.

This kind of gender confusion gives off vibes of James Talarico announcing that God is "...Read more

From the clutter of midterm election poll results, it's possible sometimes to see new patterns of political support emerging.

The overall pattern, as it stands, makes some sense. As in the 2006 and 2018 off-year cycles, the Republican president's job approval had sagged to well below 50%. Polls at this point in the year showed Democrats ...Read more

History yields people whose influence extends far beyond their earthly lives. They become teachers to generations they never met, spiritual companions to people whose names they never knew, and reminders that faith is not merely a set of propositions to be accepted but a way of life to be embraced. For me, one of those extraordinary figures is...Read more

The widening conflict involving the United States, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Houthis is no longer merely a Middle Eastern war. It is becoming a contest over the international order itself, with Russia and China operating increasingly in the shadows and avoiding direct confrontation while exploiting disorder, protecting their interests and...Read more

Chinese President Xi Jinping landed at Joint Base Andrews just outside Washington on Wednesday and was met personally on the tarmac by President Donald Trump. The agenda included an elaborate Rose Garden military review and official state dinner in the White House's East Room.

Most of that chichi was just foreplay before Thursday's ...Read more

Author and activist Nikole Hannah-Jones published an emotional essay in the New York Times Magazine last week titled "In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?" In the piece, Hannah-Jones writes about the consequences of having deliberately selected a school for her daughter, Najya, that was "low-income and mostly Black" as a way...Read more

Schools are ending gifted and talented programs. They will no longer separate kids by ability.

Why?

To address "inequity."

"This is so misguided," says education researcher Michael Petrilli in my new video. "These equity people say, 'Oh, we're against gifted education.' At the same time, they're upset that universities aren't very diverse. ...Read more

I'm far from understanding chatbots, chips and AI technology, but I've worked in D.C. long enough to be suspicious when industry giants come begging for government regulations.

In the September 2026 essay "We Must Pace the Frontier," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says that AI "could dramatically raise the quality of human life" but that it "...Read more

So the Great Destructive Intra-NATO War Over Greenland Sovereignty leftish European and American media swore for over a year that President Donald Trump's aggressive January 2025 rhetoric would ignite has ...

... ultimately produced a very good security deal for all three primary parties (Greenland, the U.S., Denmark). NATO and -- for that ...Read more

Republican politicians are warning about the Islamization of America, which is spawning homegrown jihadists and recognition of Sharia law. But some are going too far, claiming that Muslims "don't belong in American society" and are "unable to assimilate."

Our leaders need to keep in mind that American Muslims are diverse in their thinking and...Read more

Two hypothetical college graduates who are married now have a combined annual income of $240,000; they each earn $120,000 per year.

Should an American who graduated from high school but never went to college -- and who now works as a delivery truck driver, earning $43,950 per year (the median annual earnings for that job) -- be forced to help...Read more

Behold the most ludicrous argument unfolding after President Donald Trump's latest attempt to deny White House press passes to Trump-loathing reporters. Somehow, the liberal elitists shamelessly claim they represent the entire American people in the briefing room and not just their own pink-haired audience.

See National "Public" Radio White ...Read more

It was 20 years ago that Al Gore's book "An Inconvenient Truth" was published, and ... well, it turns out that the truth was inconvenient -- for Al and his band of apocalyptics.

I asked my team to use the AI chatbot ChatGPT as a referee in assessing the accuracy of the book's scary and often-quoted conclusions.

It turns out ChatGPT is very ...Read more

SHIPPINGPORT, Pa. -- The last time that I stood on these grounds along the Ohio River in Beaver County was 1976, 19 years after the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States opened here.

My Perry High School physics teacher, David Burrows, had loaded a handful of us into a van for a field trip to the atomic station and to the ...Read more